I paid a lotta money at one time for Composition and Arranging courses at the university level.

Imagine my thoughts when the prof told us that "everything that can be done for arrangement of the strings has already been done, so to learn that, go to the library and check out some of those mini scores and study them."

I did eventually do just that, and the advice was exactly spot on, but darnit, the advice could have cost a lot less of my money.

A word to the wise should be sufficient.


--Mac